Audi's recent quattro concept, ultra-modern and advanced as it may be, has much in common with its eighties predecessor: the blunt tail, the profile of the C-pillars, the asymmetric bonnet vent. Indeed, Wolfgang Egger, Audi's design chief, describes the point of the concept as to 'look back but also look forward'.
There's no denying that it's a thing of beauty; using a chopped-about S5 chassis and TT-RS engine, the quattro is swathed in gorgeous detail, from the embossed Audi rings on the rear quarters to the impeccably machined struts on the rear spoiler.
And what better way to celebrate this gorgeous piece of design than to test it back-to-back alongside the rare-as-hens-teeth Ur-Quattro? Car & Driver did just that in this beautifully-written feature.
Incidentally... quattro or Quattro? Well, the red car we see here, the original Quattro (or Ur-Quattro) is capitalised. Thereafter, all 4wd Audis are badged as the lower-case 'quattro'. So there you go.
With thanks to Amazo.
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